Pedro Álvares Cabral departs Lisbon, Portugal at the head of a 13 ship expedition to India that will also claim Brazil for Portugal
Jan 21, 1525
Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
Feb 7, 1550
Pope Julius III
Jan 1, 1565
The city of Rio de Janeiro was founded in 1565.
São Luís is founded by the French. They build and named a fort Saint-Louis de Maragnan after King Louis XIII and Louis IX.
The Dutch west India company tried to control the sugar and slave trade.
Before the arrival of the Europeans the lands that now constitute Brazil were occupied fought over and settled by diverse tribes